Giveaway: HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web

August 26, 2009

I’m a Blackberry girl, but I will admit to some serious app-envy when the IPhones came out. I would sit around with my friends who owned IPhones watching them plick around from app to app, shaking this and scrolling that. Jealousy is an ugly thing.

But that was really it. I didn’t want it because it was a better phone or because it provided better service…I craved apps. Organization apps, game apps, chat apps, productivity apps. I wanted them.

You want to find thousands of ways to waste your money? There’s apps for that.

Beyond the games and Twitter apps, there’s a functionality to having these apps at hand that make doing without seem archaic. My kids are growing up with information at their fingertips, with a grasp of technology that is almost Jetson-like compared to my childhood.

Apps make the world just a little bit more fun, a little bit easier.

HP decided that if you wanted a printer that was easier and more functional as a stand-alone piece of equipment, they would make apps for THAT.

I already have an awesome HP printer….it’s an All-In-One and totally wireless but it still requires me to sit at the computer and send the printer what I need it to print.

But I got a chance to play with the HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web while I was at BlogHer and all my threats to steal if off the table were laughed away. I may have even licked it a time or two.

HP gave me all these specs I could share and things I could tell you, but I really have to explain it in my own way:

If a printer and an IPhone had a baby? THIS would be the resulting bundle of joy. A kickass, multi-functional and app-happy baby. I love babies.

Which is really nice. I mean, that thing is slick!

But, what makes this machine stand head and shoulders above the rest? Is THIS:

Using my giddy little fingers in Chicago I was able to scroll through the apps and print off Google Maps, Fandango movie tickets, photos that had been uploaded to Snapfish and HP Creative Studios, coupons from Coupons.com, watch movie trailers and print coloring pages from DreamWorks (do you SEE why I tried to steal this sucker?).

From this one little screen you can download apps from the HP Apps Suite to your little heart’s content, but you can also edit your photos on the spot. You can print directly from your IPhone or PSP
(that we don’t have yet but might have to buy
just to be sure you really can).

Now, I didn’t even GET one of these beauties as my very own to love and keep. *sigh* BUT!! I get to give one away to a lucky reader.

No.

FOR REAL.

It’s not even available for sale yet and you’re going to get to win one.

I know. SHUT UP.

So, on with the giving.

How to win:

• Please leave a comment below…HP wants to know what apps you would use with a printer like this…If you were creating an app, what would you make? If you leave an APP suggestion, it will get you TWO entries(for example, I don’t get the Sunday paper, but I’d love to be able to have the sales inserts….they could have those for download and printing JUST the ones I would use. SCORE!)

• Additional entry for Tweeting this contest and leaving the link in a comment – Use @AnissaMayhew
in the tweet please!

• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments

Rules:

• No duplicate comments.

• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.

• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

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I would really love an app that could be linked to my twitter account that could print all my tweets with a specific hash tag. I like to use Twitter as a baby book (IT IS ALWAYS THERE, and I am lazy, ha.) and that would make it possible to easily pull out all the #milestone tweets for transfer to … an actual baby book.

Seriously? I don't even HAVE a printer. I have to copy things off the net WITH MY FINGERS and a PEN. (or crayon, whatever is handy) – I do have an iPhone, so this rocks my socks.
If I was an App designer, I would like to be able to print coupons from onlines sites as well as the Sunday paper. IS there already an App for that? How about an App that takes my blog recipes and makes them printable without the fuss?

Oh!!!… My goodness, I want this to *organize* my designs (sewing, quilting)!!! SO many ways to organize and keep track of my designs, patterns, (and even my "stash" of materials, fabrics, colors and idea sketches!!)
I would love to be able to select the design I want to use, play with the colors, tweek the layout, save the changes, and then print out the pattern!! Archiving past work, and creating a portfolio of relevant designs would be a snap!!
Oh, my!!!!
Blessings!!!
Pat

I'd like an app to assemble a grocery list from a recipe (sorting by department ideally). I'd also like an app to pull together library call numbers and put together a nice in-order list to go search the shelves.

I would love to win this..Print wireless from my lap top. I usually have it plugged into my printer and forget…Go to pick up my laptop and wow what a mess…use it with my sewing machine to make the pictures for a quilt i want to make for the grandkids for christmas..Add alot of there pictures to there quilt…And the pictures for my ebay would be wonderful. Plus HP is a very good product. The possibilites are endless….Thanks to you and HP for a wonderful give a way.

A mini Open Office app would be great I could then print any number of doc.s I already have. Especially those annoying calculate spreadsheets that I always seem to need to print again and again. Sun would do a great thing making a compatible format.

That is the prettiest printer I've ever seen. I love my HP all-in-one, but it's old and there are so many things that this new one can do that mine can't. I would want an app that would allow me to print the recipes I want from recipes.com…without first having to go to my computer to find them. And it's wireless?!?! Holy artichokes I would love to have that baby!

I'm speechlessly in love with this printer! It's amazing and I need it- need so bad- you don't even know. It's a little over my head, but I would really try my hardest to understand the whole "app" thing! I would use coupons, recipes, and maps! I would like a budgeting app (because I would like to pretend that I stay on budget) and a scheduling agenda to coordinate all my kid's whereabouts- I'm getting giddy thinking about it!

I would love an APP to help me print allergen information when I'm heading to restaurants or shopping. My son has a life-threatening peanut allergy and it would be helpful to be able to print a quick alert card OR easily look up whether or not major brands contain peanuts or were processed in a facility with peanuts.

I want this – an app idea would be an auto-flickr printer. Where you tag a photo with print and it would print it. or even better hook it up with http://www.eye.fi
and then have the ones marked with print – well… print.

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Erma Bombeck said something that pretty much defines my approach to life.... "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say, "I used everything you gave me." If you switch the word TALENT for LOVE or LAUGHTER or HAPPINESS....it still stands.